Sr. Program Operations Manager - Military veterans preferred

This opportunity is for the Operations Lead role within the Surveillance and Targeting Systems (STS) Product line which resides within the Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems Mission Area. In this position the Operations lead will partner with Program Management, Customers, and other supporting functions to shape, develop and execute the strategies and objectives of the product line. This role will include all areas of operations to include: a) the front end of the business, supporting proposal activity and new business planning to ensure successful execution of production contracts and b) teaming with factory operations to ensure successful execution of production and depot contracts.

This position is responsible for the cost, schedule and technical performance of business area production. Provide management and coordination in support of the production and testing of various business area products at multiple sites. This position will be accountable for operations strategy, driving successful transition to production, providing operations proposal support, developing and approving EACs and ensuring appropriate staffing. Assure consistent application of common processes; drive requirement standards for full suite of business area customer sets to achieve maximum commonality for the Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business area and Raytheon. Develops business area Ops priorities in support of program deliveries. Drives cross-functional teams to realize significant improvements in value stream performance. Accountable for program/business area On-Time Schedule performance. Builds an agile high performance work team through training, skill set expansion and employee mentoring and coaching. Provide Operational services across all functional and business boundaries, and insure commonality.

Required Skills:

Minimum of 12 years of program operations, management, operations or related experience

Defense Industry experience

Control Account Management experience

Must be able to develop and manage all common processes necessary to execute predictable product delivery and execution of STS strategy and goals in a fast paced, high mix, low volume made to order manufacturing environment

Experience in supervising and driving the day-to-day activities of a diverse & cross functional team in a healthy, robust matrixed environment